China wants to land on Mars by 2021: Top official at the country's space agency reveals plans for mission to the red planet
中国拟在2021年登陆火星,航天局高官披露登陆红色星球的计划
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Why go to Mars? There is nothing there except dirt... red dirt, brown dirt... mountains of dirt. Billions of yen and dollars to fly to a planet filled with nothing but dirt. I don't get it.Nixliberalis
Why are some people so keen to go to Mars. Can't we first try to solve our problems here on Earth ? Or is it to escape our problems and avoid facing them, that we think of going to desolate planets ?NoOneInParticularReply toNixliberalis
Is it possible to consider that we are such a diverse group that we may be able to do more than one thing at a time?Consider also, that spreading out beyond the confines of this one spinning rock ball may BE what is needed to help with the problems here?Bob Crane
Last week it was China landing on the moon, this week its Mars - what's next week, Uranus?TOM or TJ
And then they are planning to send a spaceship to Alpha Centuri by 2022. Keep dreaming China.